Thursday, September 27, 2012

35 Years

Now I can check off another technique on my try-it-myself list. It looked easy enough. Punch squares, cut in half, and arrange to form chevron design. Sounds pretty easy too. But it wasn't that simple. I forgot to take into account those pesky little stripes of the plaid pattern and how difficult they are to match up. So they're a little off. Ooops.

But they do make a fine page element, stretched across the top like
that, drawing their colors from those in the picture below it.

With the chevron design taking up most of the page, and the photo 2/3rds
of the rest, I had only a tiny spot left to work in my title, a bit of
journaling, and grouping of embellishments. I tucked in the
bingo cards to sort of frame the cluster, and bring in some more color, then used pop-dots to
give dimension to my flat sticker and fussy-cut flowers.
It turned out pretty nice with my simple title overlapping the
journaling card.

35 years...how could that
be?! I
was a child bride. Must have been, right?!

Congrats! I love the chevron work. I ran into the same problem when I tried it, the patterns not lining up perfectly, but the same thing happens in a quilt, so I just went with it. :) Your page turned out great!

Such a great layout and that is one of the reasons I was a little intimidated at trying that chevron technique.But I think your's is fabulous!It's such an eye catching design element!And I love your layered corner as well!